Darker areas indicate greater visibility. Check local details for visibility near you. Now that's a huge swath of the planet that'll be able to see at least part of the eclipse, including North and South America, Eastern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Region. So check the timing of its visibility for your area. For U. East Coast observers, the partial eclipse begins a little after 2 a.
For observers on the West Coast, that translates to beginning just after 11 p. Partial lunar eclipses might not be quite as spectacular as total lunar eclipses — where the Moon is completely covered in Earth's shadow — but they occur more frequently.
And that just means more opportunities to witness little changes in our solar system that sometimes occur right before our eyes. If you have any feedback, please get in contact. Ephemeris Calculator Use the form below to compute ephemerides for any date and time and display the predicted positions in the sky. Canes Venatici. You can then jump from constellation to constellation, finding your way around the sky.
It helps to use a dim, red flashlight so that you can see both the map and the sky together. The Leonid Meteor Shower will peak the morning of November This shower is active from November 6 to November 30 so keep your eyes open for meteors all month. Unlike the evening sky this month, there are no bright planets to see in the morning sky. However, if you have binoculars and are up for a challenge, the little planet Mercury is visible very low near the horizon in the east-southeast before sunrise.
Mercury will disappear into the glare of the Sun in the second week of the month so look early. Be very careful when using binoculars near where the Sun will rise. You can risk permanent eye damage if you look at the Sun through binoculars! An hour before sunrise on November 2 Mercury will be close to the star Spica. You might still be able to catch Mercury on the morning of November If you can find it, see if you can see the planet Mars to the lower right of Mercury. Mars will be very faint!
Try about 45 minutes before sunrise. As you look high in the south before dawn, see if you can make out the constellation pattern of Leo with its bright star Regulus. Below is the northern half of the morning sky from the horizon to overhead, about an hour before sunrise mid-month. Go to The Evening Sky in November to compare the positions of the Dippers with their evening positions. There are many more constellation star patterns you can pick out using our easy, Basic Morning Star Map.
Look about 30 minutes before sunrise. Binoculars will help. The Moon is between the Earth and Sun and not visible. In a couple of days it will appear as a thin crescent in the evening as it pulls away from the Sun from our point of view. Set your clocks BACK one hour. The Moon is one quarter of the way around the Earth and appears half lit in the evening sky. Usually the best time to try to catch meteors is the early morning hours before dawn, specifically 3 to 6 am as the constellation Leo climbs higher in the sky.
But, this year the shower is hampered by the light from an almost full Moon. Since this shower is active from November 6 to November 30 you should keep an eye on the sky all month for meteors. This means we see the planets at different times each year. Astronomers use their knowledge of the movements of planets to predict where and when they will be visible in the night sky. The ' Horizon View ' pictures show maps of the night sky for each of the compass points: north, east, south, west.
Make sure to note down which map the planet appears in before you go looking for it. The ' Whole Sky ' pictures show the entire sky as a big round picture.
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